Author(s): Allen Hjelmfelt; Menghua Wang
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Abstract: The impact of riparian vegetation or buffer strips on runoff, sediment yield, and atrazine loss on a field with gentle to flat slopes and located in a claypan soil region was investigated using a physically-based, distributed watershed model. The field is in Goodwater Creek watershed, a USD A research site. The model works on a cell base and was developed to route runoff, sediment, and soluble chemical downslope from one cell to the next. Results indicated that grass waterways have great potential for retarding runoff and for reducing sediment loss but are not effective for controlling atrazine loss in the claypan region.
Year: 1997